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Dr. E. M. Moore, Sr., Called to Rest Dr. E. M. Moore, Sr., died at 2:16 o’clock yesterday afternoon at his home, 74 South Fitzhugh street, aged 88 years. An attack of bronchitis was the immediate cause of death. He had been feeble for several years.
Edward Mott Moore was born in Rahway, N. J. July 15, 1814. His grandfather, Samuel Moore, also born in New Jersey, was of English descent. After the Revolution, Samuel Moore removed to Nova Scotia, where Lindley Murrey Moore, the father of the subject of this sketch was born May 31, 1788. Lindley Murrey Moore removed to New Jersey when a young man and married Abigail Lydia Mott, daughter of Adam and Anne Mott, August 19, 1812. Edward Mott Moore was the son of these parents.
The grandfather of Dr. Moore, on his father’s side, his father and mother were professional teachers and members of the Society of Friends. The young man received a thorough classical education in his father’s school, and took a scientific course in the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy.
In 1835 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Amos Coleman of Rochester, his parents having moved to this city in 1830. He attended a course of lectures of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York and took a two years course at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professional Career
After practicing in Philadelphia as resident physician in public institutions he returned to Rochester in 1842 and began a professional career which in a comparatively few years placed him in the foremost rank of physicians and surgeons of his day. In the same year he was elected professor of surgery in the medical school at Woodstock, Vermont where he passed two months of every year until 1854. Afterward he was made professor of surgery at the Berkshire, Mass. Medical College and also at the Sterling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. He was for 25 years previous to 1883 professor of surgery at the Buffalo Medical College. At this time he had lectured in medical institutions for more than 40 years, in the meantime residing in Rochester and practicing his profession. He was a permanent member of the American Medical Assoc., and was president of the New York State Medical Society in 1874. He was one of the founders of the Surgical Association of the United States and one of its presidents and was vice president of the Medical Assoc. of the United States. He was president of the State Board of Heath from the time of its organization until 1856. In 1894 he was a delegate to the International Congress of Physicians at Copenhagen. For many years he was president of the board of trustees for the University of Rochester which conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He had been president of the Genesee Valley Club.
His Surgical Discoveries
Dr. Moore’s original investigations in medicine and surgery have proved of great value, and it is interesting to note that in several remarkable instances his investigations and conclusions of years ago have been verified in recent times through the means of observations provided by the Roentgen rays. A comparison of Dr. Moore’s celebrated chapter on fractures and dislocations in the "surgical encyclopedia" with advantageous observations afforded by the Roentgen force will show corroborations.
Original observations and discoveries by Dr. Moore, upon which alone is name as a scientific surgeon might well rest. He also discovered a perfect dressing for fractured clavicle; a method of reduction and dressing in epiphyseal fracture of the upper end of the humerus: dressing for fractures nose: a method of lithotrity, since perfected by Dr. Bigelow, of Boston. In view of the corroboration of so many of his conclusions regarding fractures and dislocations by the Roentgen ray process, Dr. Moore had for some time been engaged in the elaboration of the encyclopedia article and the result is now ready for the press in book form.
Among the more notable achievements by Dr. Moore, was his series of experiments, through the vivisection of animals, on the action of the heart, with reference to diagnosis. His view of vivisection of animals was that they should be protected in the operation, rather than that vivisection should be entirely prohibited by statutory enactment. He was a colleague of Dr. Hope, the celebrated author of "Hope on the Heart." and contributed much to that treatise.
Dr. Moore was well known as "the father of the Rochester park system." He had been president of the Board of Park Commissioners from the date of its organization. He early advocated an adequate park system and persistently argued in favor of acquiring and improving land along the river that by nature is especially adapted to park purposes.
In the establishment of the Rochester City hospital Dr. Moore was largely instrumental. To him is due largely the credit of the administration of Reynolds library and the Red Cross society. As an officer of the Rochester health department he gave the city the benefit of his scientific knowledge. He performed the first operation in the surgical pavillon of St. Mary’s hospital. He was active in the advancement of the work of the Infants’ Summer hospital at Charlotte.
In 1847 Dr. Moore married Miss Lucia Prescott of Windsor, Vt., a granddaughter of Dr. Samuel Prescott whose brother, Colonel Prescott, was a companion of Paul Revere on his ride to Concord. On November 11, 1897, Dr. And Mrs. Moore celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.